Male in Television Shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Supernatural

The feminism is also out the window, well, Spike tries to rape Buffy and he and we never hear the end of it, he must get a soul to be worthy, and he must endure torment and torture along the way. Meanwhile, Buffy uses Spike repeatedly and rapes him in the mix, and she’s not even sorry and never called to account. One of those irony moments when the purveyors of a vision of a more just power demonstrate that their only vision is that if she’d had that testosterone pulse in the womb she’d be just like every conquering and lordly male in history [and have the testicles to prove it]. Here, from someone who said it better than me:

Rated NC-17 ♥ Buffy, Spike and Angel in the future.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer premiered in 1997 and ran until 2003.

Wow, Lulurose, two really great articles! I hadn't read the Battis/Slayage one, though I read Slayage a lot. It was so beautifully written, so dense with subject matter and he was so touchingly open about his own depression and other problems that it made we want to buy his book, which I will look for . There were so many subjects to discuss in it, for example, poverty and wealth - the way Cordelia and Fred live out their privilege. But I don't think they were privileged in the same way, though both seem to come from affluent families, Cordelia's family was really rich until the IRS caught up with them, which means they were basically crooks, and Fred's parents, although they can afford a trip abroad, and to send their daughter to a very good university, aren't rich like Cordelia's were, or with a different attitude anyway...so much to think about. Thank you for posting! I'm not up on the comics, waiting for the TPB's so i can't comment on what's happening in the Buffyverse - but I have read some fierce criticism online -that Spike and Angel have become caricatures of themselves...I hope its not true. I hope to find out soon...

Slayer Slang: A Buffy theVampire Slayer Lexicon.

Thank you for posting the article links - I will read and then we can all discuss - I feel like I really need some Spike and Spuffy and Buffyverse Love right now. I have to admit, that the last two issue of A&F have made me very sad - especially with a dark ff story that I read recently, I am wanting very much to get a reminder of why I have such an admiration for the Buffyverse.

Why Buffy matters: the artof Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Willow is an interesting character to look at in terms of her multiple incarnations, all of which I would argue act to subvert a feminist reading of Buffy . When we first meet Willow she is a typical geeky high school girl. She lives in her dungarees and sensible striped jumpers, particularly noticeable in comparison with her more glamorous classmates, Buffy and Cordelia. She is highly intelligent, which in itself does not bode well for a female character in Buft. A typical representation of the intelligent woman can be seen in self styled "techno pagan" and teacher Jenny Calendar, whose very name is reminiscent of the patriarchal tradition of privileging a woman’s appearance over her intelligence; she may have brains, but ultimately Jenny is literally a ‘calendar girl’. Furthermore, both Jenny and Professor Walsh, university lecturer and head of the Initiative programme in season four, suffer for their intelligence and come to a sticky end. Jenny is murdered by the vampire Angel, and Professor Walsh is portrayed as a crazed Frankenstein figure eventually murdered by her own creation.

Music, Sound and Silence in "Buffy the VampireSlayer".

However, the camera then shifts perspective to see Xander crash into a stair railing and fall comically to the ground due to concentrating his gaze on Buffy, the woman, rather than on his personal direction. Camera shot and action combine to implicitly ridicule and reject the validity of the male gaze; as the camera pulls back from Xander’s view in order to reveal the entirety of the action, the narrowness of the male gaze is criticized and scorned as the all American high school boy becomes the subject of a universal derisory gaze, as opposed to being the possessor of a sexual male gaze. This moment serves to introduce an understanding of Sunnydale as a matriarchal society, as Xander is arguably feminised through the inversion of the gaze.

Buffy and AngelConquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom.

Sorry, but I've not had a chance to read the articles yet - will get to at least one tonight and the other tomorrow. One thing for sure, the Buffyverse and Angelverse have used women most cruelly in the sexual context. And how they used poor Connor with Cordelia in the sexual relationship, that one is hard to take, but Connor connecting to Cordelia/Dark Cordy did work because he was so lost and in need of any kind of authority adult figure and connection with another person. They really used Connor as a whipping post for Angel/Angelus and the victim symbol of endless violence and vengeance.

UndeadTV: Essays on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".

Starting with undertones in the 18th century with Polidori and Byrons’ relationship to Carmilla finally leading to the 20th century relationships in Interview with the Vampire and Buffy the Vampire Slayer....

Buffy the VampireSlayer: Panel to Panel.

This paper is concerned with critically analysing the overt representations of lesbian desire and identity as they are manifested through the Willow (played by Alyson Hannigan) and Tara (Amber Benson) characters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the coming out narratives as they unfold in Season Four....